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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-04-08
FOREIGN lNTEIIJGENcF.


DURING the first three months of this
year the business failures in Canada num-
bered 1893, against $50 in 1886; liabilities
So, 602000, against s., 442, 000 in 1885
THE Liberal Union members of both
Houses of the British Parliament were
earnestly requested by LORI Harrington
on the 31st ult. to stand by the Tories and
keep Gladstone from returning to power
M0NCToN, N. B., advices of the 1st con-
tain news of trains stalled in snow banks
and hundreds of passengers were suffer
ing from cold and hunger. In many places
the snow-drifts were thirty-feet deep
PRINCE BISMARCK, of Germany, cele
brated his seventy birthday on the
1st.
Mr.. PARNELL's speech in the British Par
lament on the 1st against coercion in Ire
land was the master effort of his life.
DURING services on the Sd the roof of a
church at Linguaglossa, Sicily, fell with
out warning, burying beneath it one hun
bred persons, forty of whom were killed
and il jured.
On the Midland and Chorino leagues, in
Mexico all the timber, amounting to 10000
acres, had been destroyed by a prairie fire
on the I'd, and several houses had been
burned. The damage was already SOC, QQ0,
and the fire was spreading rapidly.
THREE persons who were concerned in tho
attempt to kill the Gear of Russia March
13 last had, it was reported OF the ID, been
hung, and twenty other suspects were IN
der arrest
IN freight train collision on the Michi-
gan Central road at St Thomas, Ont, on
the 2d two of the employees were killed and
twenty six cars demolished.
In the Austrian town of Pola, on the
Adriatic, an amphitheater dis appeared on
the ID into chasm which emits vapors.
EX-SECRETARY MANNING instead of being
in a critical condition as reported was on
the ID said to be greatly improved since
his arrival in England.
THE cholera in Chilli was reported dying
out on the 4th.
THREE fiends who had murdered the
drivers of train of cocoa were recently
shot dead by the authorities of Santiago de
Cuba. One of them confessed to having
killed ten men.
In the building occupied by the Minister
of Finance at Madrid an Internal machine
was exploded on the 4th, and another was
discovered in doorway.
Two ATTEMPTS having been made to use
dynamite in the Spanish Chamber of Dep
uties the President on the 4th Cancelled all
cards of admission to the Parliament build
ing held by journalists
A FLOOD at Ingersoll, Ont, swept away
three tenement houses on the 4th, six per.
sons losing their lives.
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SYMPATHY FOR IRELAND.
Meetings at Des Moines, Philadelphia an
Boston Denounce Coercion.

Meetings at Des Moines, Philadelphia and
Boston Denounce Coercion.
Dies MONIES, Ia. April "a large and
enthusiastic mass meeting was held in
this city last night to express sympathy
with the people of Ireland and denounce
the Balfour Coercion bill. Governor Lar
rabee presided and speeches were made
by Lieutenant Governor Hull, Secretary of
State Jackson, Auditor Lyons, Congressman
Conger, Judge Josiah Given, Rev. DR..
Miller, Rev. DR.. Frisbie Father Flavin and
others. Letters and kilograms were read
from leading men of the State expressing
hearty sympathy with the purpose of the
meeting. Strong resolutions expressing
the sympathy Of the 100000 people OF
Iowa for the Irish people and their leaders
in their fight for constitutional liberty
were adopted. A cablegram expressing
the sentiment of the meeting was sent to
Mr.. Gladstone.
Boston, April 5-Faneuil Hall was
packed last night by a thoroughly Ameri
can audience to express condemnation of
the Irish Grimes act Governor Ames pre-
sided. Speeches were made by Senator
Hoar, Mayor O'Brien John Boyle O'Reilly,
Lieutenant-Governor Bracket and others.
Letters in sympathy with the object OF
the meeting were read from Senator
Dawes, Congressman Collins and Collector
Saltonstall. A collection of 81, 1903 was
handed in to be forwarded to the Irish
League fund. kilograms Endorsed by the
meeting were sent to Gladstone and Par
nell.
PHILADELPHIA, April "a crowded mass
meeting was held at the Academy of Music
last night to protest against coercion in
Ireland. Governor Beaver and all the liv-
ing ex-Governors of the State were pres
ent and many other prominent men. Ex-
Attorney General Brewster presided. Aft
ter several speeches resolutions of sym.
pathy were adopted and telegraphed to
Gladstone and ParnelL An overflow meet
ing was held in the street.
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volume Of business transacted IN Chicaro

volume OF business transacted IN Chicago
shows an increase of ten to fifty Per cent.
over that of the corresponding period of
1886.
THE steamer Mexico plying between San
Francisco and Puget Sound, was reported
wrecked on the 3D. Loss $50, 900.
EARLY on the morning of the ID an in
cendiary fire consumed the magnificent
Hotel de Monte, erected at Monterey, Cal,
by the Southern Pacific Company at cost
Of $3.50, COO. Three hundred guests were
rescued, but most of them lost their eff
fects.
THE agricultural as well as the livestock
interests Of Texas were suffering from
drought which prevailed throughout the
State on the "a.
THROUGHOUT Wisconsin and Northern
Michigan a heavy snow-storm prevailed
on the 4th, delaying trains IN all direc-
tions.
GENERAL JOHN A. McNULTA, of Bloom
ington ILL.,, was on the 4th appointed tc
succeed Judge Cooley as receiver of the
Wabash railway.
SEVERAL Thousand carpenters in Chica go
ana one thousand in Cincinnati struck on.
the 4th for shorter hours and higher
wages.
IL the Second district of Texas on the
4th William H. Martin (Dem.) was elected
Congressman to fill Ir. Reagan's unex-
PRED term.
AT Kansas City an electric railway was
put in successful operation on the 4th. A
maximum speed of twenty miles an hour
wOs obtained on trial.
ELEVEN hundred Cinnamon, with small
pox among Them arrived at San Francisco
by steamer on the 4th.
The Well-knoWn railroad contractor and
engineer, Captain John Grant, died on
the 4th at New Orleans, aged ninety-two
years He leaves eighty living descend
ants
THE Republicans in Cincinnati on the
4th reelected their candidate (Smith) for
mayor, and in Cleveland B. L. Babcock
(Dem.) was chosen mayor.
LAST December Herman Schultzer, of
Chicago, was bitten by dog Early on
the morning of the 4th inst he became
violent from hydrophobia, and on being re-
moved to the county Jail expired in eight
hours in terrible agony.
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THE LONG AND SHORT HAUL.
Railroad Representatives Ask That the
Section Be Temnnrarily Susnended.

Railroad Representatives Ask That the
Section Be Temporarily Suspended.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-The Interstate
Commerce Commission has selected as per-
manentquarters the fifth floor of the San
building The annual rental is So 600.
Colonel Worthington, general counsel
for the Richmond e. Danville system;
Major Sheiman traffic manager OF the
Central Railroad and Banking Company
of Georgia, and Vice President Smith,
of the Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road Company; George r. Blanch-
ard, representing the Michigan rail-
roads; John S. Lazarus, general freight
agent of the Indianapolis, Decatur &
Springfield railroad; A. D. Smith, general
passenger agent of the Pittsburgh & Lake
Erie railroad, and r. A. Anderson, super
intendent of the Western & Atlanta rail-
road, presented petitions and arguments to
secure suspension of the operations of
the long and short haul feature Of the law
until the commission can give hearings
upon each specific case.
The com MISSION afterWard went into
secret session and considered the petition
presented by the Southern Railway and
Steamship Association asking relief from
the operations Of the long and short haul
clause. Although 10 final conclusion was
reached the discussion indicated that the
operations of this clause of the law will be
temporarily suspended as respects these
70 DIS pending full hearing of their case.
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LATER.

IN the Chicago municipal election on the
9th the Republicans elected their entire
ticket by maJorities ranging fI.sm IS, $50 to
$4,000 John A. Roche was elected mayor
by majority of 2S,03l. The total vote
was: Roche, 51,2l0; Nelson (Labor), %, 179.
NEAR Wardner, l. T., on the 9Th the
steamer Spokane capszed in the Occur
DAlene river, and five of the tWcnty-four
passengers were drowned.
THE steamer City of Picking, which ar
rived i'll San Francisco on the 5th, brought
275.000 trade dollars from China to be .ex-
changed for standard dollars
SIX men were frightfully burned on the
9th by an explosion of molten metal in the
Edgar Thomson steel works at Braddock,
Pa.
The jail at Yorkvillc, S. c., was early
on the morning of the 9Th forced by sixty
men, who took out and lynched four negro
thieves for the murder of white lad who
had Informed on them.
FIERCE forest fire was raging on the
9Th in the woods i'll Prince George County,
VA, destroying large quantities of timber
land, cordWood and underground.
In the st. Louis municipal election on the
5th the Republicans elected the entire
City Council with but one exception.
AT the Wisconsin State election on the
5th the only office to be filled by vote of
the people at large was that Of Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court. There was
no opposition to the reelection Of the pres
ent incumbent, H. S. Orion, whose term
will expire January, 1889.
THE indictments recently found against
present and former commissioners of Cook
County, Ill.,, number 200, and against
wardens and contractOrs 102.
LATEST figures on the 5th placed the ma
jorityfagainst the Prohibition amendment
IN Michigan at 5000 The Republicans
elected their candidates for Justices and
Regents the only State officers voted for)
by about 10000 majority
Al explosion on the 9Th in a coal mine at
Savanna, l. t., killed six nor. Twelve of
rescuing party were sufTocated by gas,
making eighteen victims in ALL
AT the elections in Illinois on the 5th
where the temperance question was
feature majority of the towns voted
against license.
Mrs. MARY MCAyoY died on the 5th at
Lancaster, Pa, aged 1903 years. She was a
native of Ireland, but came to this country
carly IN the present century.
AT the municipal elections in Kansas on
the 9Th the women generally awaited them
selves of the new law allowing them to
vote, and several were elected as members
of school boards
TWENTY-FIVE young ladies graduated
from the Woman's Medical College IN Chi
cago ON the 9Th and were given diplomas.
FURTHER returns on the 5th from Cincin-
nati show that the Republican city ticket
was elected at the recent election by ma
1orities ranging from 600 to 1900. The to-
tai vote for mayor was: Smith tRep.), II
953; Matson tDem.l, 1851, Stevenson
Labor), 1896
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TIE NEW s.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON.

WITH one exception, that of FL. G. Bow
en-, of Virginia, the certificates of election
of all the mem ers OF the Fiftieti Congress
had been received at Washington on the
3ist ult.
THERE were during the last three
months 3,007 failures in the United States,
with liabilities of $32 161 900, as compared
with g. 203 failures and SO. 6S1, 900 liabilities
for the same period in 1886.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
effected an organization in Washington on
the 3lst ult. and elected Judge Cooley, of
Michigan, as chairman of the commission
THE public-debt statement for March is
as follows Total debt Cncluding interest),
81, 708, go, 513; less cash items available for
reduction Of debt, and reserve bills for re-
demption of United States notes $685.
1913, 97I), $1,241, 083, 542; cash in treasury,
$2l. $50, 9S3; debt less amount in treasury,
81, 3l8, 223, 558. Decrease during March, S12,-
80S, 1853.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 1st ap-
pointed Charles S. Fairchill Secretary of
the Treasury and Isaac Fl. Maynard As
s-stant Treasurer. Both are from New
York
DURING March the coinage Of the minis
was IS, 1876, $685. OF which S2,03O, $50 was in
standard silver dollars.
TIE United States business failures dur
ing the seven days ended on the 1st num-
bered 1876, against 229 the previous seven
days.
TIE General Land Office in Washington
has on file 6, 1O5 cases awaiting adjudica.
ton. During the past week 1868 land
patents were approved.
DURING the month of March 1875 PEN
sion certificates were issued by the United
States Pension Bureau, 1854 being for in
creased pensions
HE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearinghouse in the United States during
the week ended on the I'd aggregated 81,
29,6S4 III, against 1896 574, SAB the previous
week. AS compared With the correspond
ing week of 1856, the increase amounts to
90 9 per cent.
TwENTYNINE special agents were at
work in the Bureau of Labor on the I'd in
vestigating strikes and locEouts for the
last five years.
UP to the 4th 3S75, 735 trade dollars had
been redeemed. The redemption was slow,
and it was not thought the total amount to
be redeemed would exceed 1,000,000
RULE OF procedure was promulgated by
the Inter State Commission on the 4th to
the effect that applications made for the
official action of the commission shall be
made by petition, which shall set forth the
facts on which they are founded and be
verified on oath by the applicant or an
authorized agent or attorney.
DURING March the United States and
Canada fire losses aggregated $1O,45), 000-
100000 above the average for March in
the past twelve years.
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IDLE CARPENTERS.
The knights of the Saw and Plane on q
Strike in Chicago and Cincinnati

CHICAGO, April 5.-The resolution adopt
ed at the mass-meeting in Battery D last
Sunday ordering all union carpenters to
cease work until all the bosses have ac-
coded to their demands-eight hours
and thirty-fve cents per hour-was
strictly carried out throughout the
city and vicinity. In the estimation
of the walking delegates the number OF
men, union and non union, at work yester-
day did not exceed 800, and the employers
confessed that the estimate was about
right. The carpenters and joiners EN-.
ployed in the planing-mills and sash, door
and blind factories, who number about
3 1000, are not affected by the strike. They
have no organization ana are satisfied with
the present rate of wages. If the strike of
the 6000 or 1000 job carpenters is
protracted one thousands of masons, brick
layers, painte ,plasterers and plumbers are.
liable to be thrown out of employment.
The strike has left twenty-five contract
ors, who have yet quite number of build
ings to finish. in bad fix A meeting of
contractors and master carpenters is to be
held tomorrow, and a compromise may be
effected.
CINCINNATI, April 5.-Nearly LOO car
penters went out on strike yesterday for
nine hours day for s.. so and eight hours
on Saturday. It is said the lest demand is
the one employers refuse to yield.
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TALL SWEARING.

A Witness for the Defense in the Had
dock Case Testifies Contradictory to
Former Evidence Given by Him.
SIOUX CITY, Ia, April 6.-The defense
was sending in evidence of a very positive
cha acter in the Arensdorf trial yesterday,
and it is startling if true, and very bold if
false. John Diedrich, who boards at the
Milwaukee House, kept by Paul Leader,
one of the defendants, swears point
blank that 'Bismarcl-r was not at
the scene of the murder at all; he was
with him when the shot was fired, two
blocks away. Swan Anderson testified
that he was west of the brewery about
200 feet when the shot was fired, and could
see no one run in the direction of
the brewery from across the bridge.
j. c. Peterson swore that he saw the
shooting, and the man who did it wore a
long rubber coat a straw hat, and ran
north up Water street This same witness
was brought from his home in Norfolk last
November by Marshal Stanley and then
stated that the man who fred the shot
was a heavy-set man who, after
the shooting, ran across the bridge
to the brewery, accompanied by
another man. His testimony this morn
ing was a complete surprise to the State,
and as they were not in a position 10 cross
examine the witness, they asked for an ad
journment till after dinner, ana the court
adjourned till two o'clock.
The afternoon was consumed in the
cross examination of Peterson. He made
SO many contradic tory statements that the
weight of his evidence was badly broken.
He made and swore to several statements
concerning his knowledge of the case at
various times since it occurred, and yester-
day denied making each one of them as
they were exhibited to him. Then he ad-
mitted signing them, but claimed he was
forced to do so and that he did not swear
to them. Two other witnesses were ex-
amined just before court adjourned, but
no material facts were developed.
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Mrs. RUTH SMITH, a wealthy lady of
Bridgeport, Conn, lives in room
made entirely of blue glass; into which
the sunlight streams the entire day;
wears blue-glass speotacles, dresses in
blue silk, and has her meals brought to
the room in dishes of blue glass, where
she eats, sleeps and lives She has not
been out of her glass home over ten
minutes at time in eight years, dur
ing which period she has never felt a
pain or an ache. If it takes all that
TO avoid pains and aches the majority
OF poor mortals viii have to endure
them.
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THE EAST.

TIE police in New York on the 1st capt
ured John Talbot, one Of the most dan
gerous and notorious burglars in the coun.
try, and $500, 900 in bonds and securities be.
longing to Miller Il Co., of Philadelphia,
were recovered.
The New York Supreme Court admitted
Colonel r. G. Ingersoll to practice in the
courts of that State en- the 1st. He re-
fused to be sworn, but affirmed.
In the Consolidated Street Railway
Company's stable at Maiden, Mass, a ker-
osene lamp exploded on the 81, and the
building, with fifty horses. was burned.
CHATHAM, Mass, was on the I'd swept by
one of the worst storms ever known there.
Trees and fences were blown down, houses
uaroofed, and the roads were blockaded by
snow.
The report that the Cunard steamship
Scytha had been wrecked on the rocks off
Scituate, Mass, was proven false by the
safe arrival of the steamer at her dock in
Boston on the Sd.
Four thousand emgrants left Castle
Garden New York; for the West on the
4th.
IN speech in New York ON the 4th Herr
Most the Anarchist recently released
from the penitentiary after serving a
sentence of one year, announced his salts
faction with the result of his teachings as
manifested in the Haymarket affair in
Chicago.
A BOYCOTT, the most extensive ever
known in this country, was inaugurated
on the 4th, being nothing less than the
throwing out of the tickets of twenty mine
Western roads by the Eastern Traffic AS
ISOLATION Hereafter through tickets and
baggage checks can not be obtained from
Eastern points to the far West.
WHILE temporarily insane John III. Bar
ron president of the New Hampshire Cat
tie Company, shot himself on the 4th at
Concord
THE death of Miss Catherine Wolfe, of
New York, known throughout the United
States for her wealth and benevolence, oc-
CURED on the 4th, at the age of fifty -eight
years. Mss Wolfe was probably the rich
est unmarried woman in the United
States, her wealth being estimated at $50,
0N0 001
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SCENE OF THE MURDER.

it; that he did actually do the killing they
show by the evidence of two of his com.
panions on that night. They have also
shown that Arensdorf paid all, or nearly
all, the money that was paid to take away
the witnesses of the deed.
At the afternoon session the defense
called Policeman Smith, who testified to
having seen bismarck" drunk on the
eventual night, after the murder had been
committed. William Metz, his wife, Of
fcers Bridewell and several others testi-
fed to the same effect. Matt Franciscus
was introduced to prove "Bisnarck's" bad
moral character. He was engaged in the
saloon business for several years, but was
at the time or the murder dealer IN sec
ond-hand goods. Mr.. Franciscus was I'M
able to name when asked to do so by Mr..
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Corpses for China.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 5-The white su
perintendent of the Mongolian burial
ground estimates that the pack of corpses
for shipment back to China will exceed
1000 for the season, and all the exhuma-
tons viii have to be performed under Gov.
eminent supervision before removal from
the cemetery will be allowed. There is
not the slightest Indication OF the Chinese
giving up this custom of shipping back
their dead to China, and, except with con.
verts to Christianity, the rule is always
followed,
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-
April 5 any action
the commission may
take before that date
will be void. 1t is
not believed, there
fore, that any organ
ization will be per-
fected and a secre-
tary elected before
the latter part of
next week. The in
tervening time will
be occupied by in
form al meetings each
day for the purpose
of becoming better
acquainted and agree
ing upon a general
Interpretation of the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-04-08

IT is given out as fact that you can
always tell brakeman v%ho is in love.
vixen you are approaching a tunnel.
He is long time lighting the lamps,
and sighs because the rules of a heart
less corporation require him to do it.
He wants to give lovers all the chance
he can, for he knows how it is himself.
A crusty, unloving brakeman lights all
the lamps before he gets within several
miles of the tunnel, ard the train
plunges in with the lamps turned up
to the highest point. The girls all
say that the unbving brakeman is a
beast.
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A Rebellion oueIled.

CHICAGO, April 6-Forty prisoners at the
Bridewell rebelled Monday morning
and refused to undertake the tasks
assigned to them All the men in
the instruction were in the cane
weaving department, which num-
bers about 125 men. The cause Of the
outbreak was the fact that the daily task
of each man had been increased from the
usual winter estimate Of days work
They were marched to their cells, and
again given a chance to return to work, but
refused. By order of Superintendent Fell
ton the n2utineers were handcuffed and
compelled to stand erect all night with
their hands outside their cell doors. In the
morning they returned to their tasks.
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KANSAS.
Big Drifts in MICHIGAN.

HANCOCK, Mich, April g. decidedly the
worst snow-storm OF the season is Just
over. The snow is thirty-four inches deep
and drifted badly. Tie Hancock & Calu-
met railroad is blocked. The Marquette
tram was delayed several hours, ard it
took the Mineral Range train seventeen
hours to 90 thirteen miles, from Calumet
to Hancock The first tune for the season
all traffic on the street was stopped. Tele-
graph and telephone wires are down.
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! ONE of the auditors of the Treasury
Department, who had rented house
in fashionable quarter of Washington,
was surprised to discover, at the end of
the month, that his landlord was none
other than one of the messengers in
his bureau. Further inquiry showed
that the latter had been loaning money
through the department to impecuni-
Gus clerks and others, extorting in re-
turn an interest of ten per cent. a
month. The ex-messenger claims to
have kept $4,000 in constant circula-
ton, which Melted him profit of about
$4,000 a year.
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Fashion in localities changes in
old cities as well as in new Forty or
fifty years ago the area covered by the
royal blue and red books which de-
scribe the fashionable districts of Lon
don lay far more centrally than now.
The center of West end has removed
from Grosvenor square to Kensington,
and the streets about Oxford street are
quietly dropping out of the aristocratic
limits. Fashion in streets moves west
ward.